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Governor Healy signs H 4744 criminalizing nonconsensual sharing of explicit images and expanding coercive-control law
Summary
Governor Healy signed H 4744, An Act to Prevent Abuse and Exploitation, into law at a ceremonial signing. The law criminalizes nonconsensual sharing of explicit images, adds prohibitions aimed at deepfakes, expands the definition of abuse to include coercive control and creates juvenile diversion and education components.
Governor Healy signed H 4744, An Act to Prevent Abuse and Exploitation, into law at a bill-signing ceremony, saying the measure modernizes protections against image-based abuse and coercive conduct.
"We're here to sign an important bill, an act to prevent abuse and exploitation," Governor Healy said, summarizing key elements that include criminalizing the nonconsensual sharing of explicit images and expanding the definition of abuse to cover coercive control. She called the legislation "necessary and decisive steps to update, to modernize, and to strengthen laws to protect residents of this state."
The law bundles criminal and preventive tools. Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll praised survivors and advocates and stressed the statute’s…
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